Career
In 1993 he quit television work, in the process denouncing Television New Zealand news and current affairs as "brain dead". Thereafter he returned to radio for several years, with a libertarian show on Radio Pacific and on the now defunct Radio Liberty. Perigo is former editor of the Free Radical, a libertarian/Objectivist magazine founded by him with backing from David Henderson in 1994.
He is a noted fan of singer Mario Lanza, and in August 2013 a collection of his writings on Lanza"s life and work was released called The One Tenor.
He also wrote the foreword for Armando Cesari"s Lanza biography, Mario Lanza: An American Tragedy. A collection of his cultural and political commentaries was released in September 2012 titled The Total Passion for the Total Height.
